By Ross Gillett Papua New Guinea’s port city of Rabaul is full of naval artifacts from the two world wars. And at the nearby town of Bita Paka it was ...
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Book Review: The Convoy by Angus Konstam
The Convoy by Angus Konstam Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing Reviewed by: Greg Swinden The British prime minister, Winston Churchill, said after the Second World War that there was only ...
GLADYS TAYLOR and the RAIDER SEEADLER
By Colin Randall When a young Gladys Taylor of Mossyrock in Washington State, USA, stowed away aboard the merchant schooner A.B. Johnson in Willapa Bay in 1917, bound for Australia, ...
CAPTAIN WALTON DRAKE, ROYAL NAVY – Queensland Colonial Naval Commandant
By Dr J.K. Haken Picture One Above: HMS Wolverene sailing from Port Jackson as Flagship of the Australia Station. John Bastock. A native of England, Walton Drake was born ...
Forty Years Ago – HMAS Stalwart’s mercy mission to Macquarie Island – December 1985
By late 1985 HMAS Stalwart had been serving as flagship of the RAN for almost four-and-a half-years. A versatile Australian-designed support vessel, originally described as an escort maintenance ship, Stalwart ...